2007
UEI moves to a new facility in Walpole, Massachusetts. The larger, 19,000 sqft facility will allow for sustained growth and expansion for the company.

UEI Releases the UEIModbus Series of data acquisition Cubes designed to communicate with a host computer or PLC over Modbus TCP. Using the UEIModbus, the technology behind the PowerDNA Cube is put to work in industrial applications where Modbus is still the dominant communications protocol.

UEI Releases the UEIPAC series of Programmable Automation Controllers or PACs. Using a Linux OS, and based on the same technology as the PowerDNA Cube, the UEIPAC is a compact, rugged, and flexible, I/O controller, ideal for use in huge number of applications.

UEI Releases PowerDNA cubes with 100BASE-FX fiber optical Ethernet interface extending the maximum distance between the PowerDNA Cube, and its host computer from 100 meters (w/100BASE-T) to 2 kilometers with multimode fiber, and 20 kilometers with single mode fiber.

2006
UEI releases the UEILogger. Base upon the PowerDNA Cube, the UEILogger is extremely powerful and flexible. The Logger allows users to install up to six different I/O boards in a single logger cube. This provides an unprecedented ability to match the logger hardware to customers’ applications. Programming the logger is simple with the intuitive Windows application provided. The new logger stores data on standard SD Cards containing up to 4 gigabytes of data.

UEI is awarded a patent for the DAQBios protocol. The new protocol allows Ethernet-based PowerDNA cubes to provide guaranteed real-time response of less than 1 millisecond over 1000 analog or digital I/O points.

UEI continues to release new I/O boards for the PowerDNA (and now UEILogger, UEIPAC, and UEIModbus) product families. New boards include a 4 port CAN interface, a 4 port RS-232/422/485 interface and a family of 16-bit analog output boards with output currents as high as ±50 mA and output voltages as high as ±40V

2005
UEI announces a new series of PowerDNA cubes based upon a new, powerful PowerPC CPU. The new cubes more than double the I/O capability of the cube. UEI continues to release new I/O boards/layers for the PowerDNA family. New boards include a counter/timer board that supports quadrature encoder measurements and a strain gage input board.

UEI also dramatically enhances its software offering by releasing an OPC server application supporting the PowerDNA and PowerDAQ, a Linux 2.2 driver for PowerDNA and support for Mathworks’ Linux version of Simulink

2004
UEI releases a host of new I/O boards in support of its growing PowerDNA family of Ethernet based I/O cubes. Software is created that allows users to host PowerDNA based systems on both Windows and Linux platforms. APIs for UEI’s Ethernet-based PowerDNA family and PCI/PXI based PowerDAQ family are consolidated allowing code written for one platform to also support the other

2003
UEI branches out into distributed I/O systems with PowerDNA, which provides exceptional hard realtime performance on Ethernet systems at an extremely attractive price point. The realtime performance is possible thanks to UEI's patent-pending DaqBIOS protocol, which allows the servicing of more than a thousand I/O points over an Ethernet network in < 1 msec.

2002
UEI expands on its industry-leading software support with several key products:

LabVIEW for Linux: With this driver, users can collect real-world data into a LabVIEW application that is running under Linux. Not even National Instruments provides this level of support.

LabVIEW Real-Time: Users are no longer locked into working with just one company when configuring a LabVIEW Real-Time system. These free drivers allow any of UEI's PXI cards to function within that environment, giving users an attractively priced alternative.

xPC Target: The MathWorks sells a combination development environment/execution system for realtime applications. UEI joins the few select firms with drivers that support the xPC Target.

2001
UEI introduces its biggest product launch since PowerDAQ - its complete family of PXI products including a chassis, CPU card and I/O modules plus all support software. We refer to this turnkey solution as PDXI (PowerDAQ eXtensions for Instrumentation). UEI becomes only the second company to offer such a complete platform, and the first to offer Linux on the PXI platform.

2000
UEI's second decade starts with the release of drivers for the hottest new OS for years: Linux; shortly thereafter we release drivers for realtime Linux and other realtime operating systems such as QNX. We also enhance our software offerings with Professor DAQ, an Excel add-in.

1999
Expanding and enhancing the PCI line, UEI brings out the PowerDAQ II family. Besides improvements in raw performance, the line adds several models including those for:

• True simultaneous sampling
• Analog output
• Digital I/O

1998
The culmination of several years of development effort takes place with the introduction of the firm's first PCI-bus cards: the PowerDAQ Series. Based on a Motorola DSP chip to offload the host CPU, they achieve performance unheard of at the time.

1997
In recognition of the need for an entry-level board, UEI develops and markets the Win-10 Series of cards, which although sold at a budget price spec a throughput of 400 kHz.

1996
After examining various data-acquisition boards from many manufacturers for the best performance at the best price, Analog Devices Inc selects UEI's Win Series in a multi-year reseller agreement.

1994
Keeping pace with the industry trend towards realtime operating environments as an alternative to Windows, UEI ships its WIN-30 drivers for the QNX realtime OS.

In further refining its hardware, UEI expands the WIN-30 line with:

• 1-MHz simultaneous sampling cards that allow users to set different gains on each input
• An improved analog front end so users can work with as many of the channels on multichannel board as they like without total system throughput dropping
• Released a scheme that allows continuous streaming to disk of data being digitized at 1 MHz. The 1-MHz streaming product is so impressive that Xerox selects it for use in its RGB color scanners.

1993
The firm relinquishes its role as a distributor and instead decides to start manufacturing its own boards.

Already at this time showing glimpses of its technical leadership, UEI designs and ships the industry's first 1-MHz board for Windows 3.1, the WIN-30 Series.

That line proves quite successful; indeed, TRW Corp becomes one of the first OEMs for that product when it selects the WIN-30 as the basis for the test stands that verify the quality of its automotive airbags.

1990
The company is founded in 1990 as a distributor of ISA-based data-acquisition boards, selling them directly as well as through major catalog resellers.